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How Being A SWOT Can Help You Grow Your Business

This article first appeared in Professional Adviser If you’ve been through the British education system and have been called a swot, the chances are…

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client experience

8 Tips To Improving The Client Experience Once They’ve Got In Touch

Last month, I looked at how marketing equals impact and shared some tips on how you can successfully market your business to new clients. This month,…

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Why marketing equals impact

Why Marketing Equals Impact

A few days, ago, I noticed this fascinating tweet by Carl Richards. If you don't know Carl, he's a financial planner and creator of Behavior Gap,…

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3 Reasons you Should Submit Award Entries – and some tips to help you win

With a variety of awards available to financial services firms throughout the year, it's important to think carefully about getting your submissions…

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The Financial Plan For Financial Planners

Earlier this year, the  Heath Report found that 5% of all financial advisers and planners have immediate plans to retire and think about their…

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What Elton John can teach financial planners about building a business

I've always believed that running a financial planning practice is a hugely satisfying career. You see how planning changes lives, you create career…

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final salary transfers

The final blow to Final Salary transfers?

It was over two years ago when I first wrote about Final Salary transfers. Plenty of water has flowed under the bridge since then, including the…

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network

Nine things which make the ideal network

As you probably know, the Professional Adviser awards took place earlier this month. One of the categories is 'Best Network,' whilst we were highly…

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Eight things essential to scaling a business

The start of a new year is a natural point to take stock and plan for the year ahead. Even if your financial year starts in April, it's never too…

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Reasons to be cheerful in 2019

2018 was another year when our profession demonstrated its resilience and ability to cope with waves of change and seismic challenges. It started…

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